Thousands of U.S. troops defy COVID-19 vaccine order

[Zorro]

Nickaylah Sampson seemed well on her way to achieving her dream of becoming an officer in the U.S. Army.

A stellar student whose family has a long tradition of military service, the San Antonio native earned a coveted spot at West Point.

She completed her freshman year in the spring of 2021, just as the military launched its vaccination campaign against COVID-19. Though she had no problem with the nine other vaccines the U.S. military requires upon enlistment, she said she worried that the COVID-19 shots were too new for their risks to be fully understood.

She said her parents, both Army veterans, told her she had only one option: “Get out as quickly as you can.”

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2022-01-05/thousands-of-u-s-troops-defy-orders-to-get-covid-19-vaccine

[dhol82]

1. Does she really think that the military wants to poison its troops?

[brush]

2. Exactly. So many dumb people out there listening to disinformation...

about the vaccines. She's about to blow an appointment to West Point and her life-long dream.

Stupid.

[marie999]

3. It's possible since the military has done different types of tests on soldiers

including radiation and sarin gas.

[Phoenix61]

12. But not on every single active duty member across all branches. nt

[twodogsbarking]

4. Your weapon is your ignorance and you

are killing people.

[global1]

7. Well It Seems Like A Good Way To Weed Out...

the weak elements. Don't know if I'd want them in my army watching my back. Couldn't trust them.

[Walleye]

5. How did we get so many yellow-bellied lily-livered cowards in the army?

[jmowreader]

13. No one brave would work for the orange pustule on the ass of humanity

[Walleye]

14. Not the party of small government, the party of small souls

[jmowreader]

16. Not just small

So small you need a microscope to find them.

[Walleye]

17. Microsouls

[Casady1]

6. Hillsdale college

offered them admissions. I have a friend who went to that school. They teach history and economics different that any other school that I know of. It is a weird school.

[Colgate 64]

10. It's not just a "weird" school. It is so far right

that Atilla the Hun would be rejected for admission as being way too liberal. Their graduates espouse some of the whackiest RW nonsens you will ever find being 'taught' on a college campus.

[appalachiablue]

22. +1

[rainin]

8. She's really going to regret this decision one day.

For the rest of her life, she'll have to live with having walked away from a great opportunity. I feel sad for her.

[634-5789]

18. I don't feel sad for her. It's science.

[rainin]

23. It's brainwashing. It's bad parenting. It's propaganda. I feel sad for her. n/t

[patphil]

9. Leaving the military is the right move for her.

She may have the intellect, and education to get into West Point, but it's evident she doesn't have what it takes to make it through the program.

[TheRealNorth]

11. One unplanned benefit of this....

Is that it is helping weed out the RWNJ's from the military.

Carry on.

[Rebl2]

19. True that

[Corgigal]

15. Parents aren't bright either.

My daughter served, and this issue wouldn’t come up. Cause we’re not idiots..
Carry on.

[Picaro]

20. Didn't realize there was a choice...

I grew up in a military family and moved all over the world. Part of that was at times you had to get vaccinated for a lot of different things.

Do you know what would’ve been great? If there had been vaccines for chickenpox, mumps, measles, and German measles.

Because I got them all.

None of them was a party.

When I was 12 we were going to move to Bogota Colombia.

I’m not sure how many vaccines I had to take. I remember the typhoid vaccine made me very ill because it made everybody very ill. but so what? It was a hell of a lot better than getting typhoid.

If I had refused to take any of these vaccines I would’ve had to stay in the country. My aunt in Wichita would’ve gladly taken me in but I had no desire to live in Wichita.

I can’t possibly understand how these members of the military and students at West Point can decide that they’re not going to take a vaccine that is mandated. Part of being in the military is obeying orders.

One of my wife’s best friends has refused to get vaccinated for Covid. Yet she was eager to take the pneumonia vaccine once she turns 65. I absolutely do not get it.

The various vaccines for Covid have been taken by hundreds of millions of people across the globe and, as far as I know, there have been very few adverse events.

The only thing I can determine is that Fox News and Newsmax and all the right wing radio actors have so poisoned so many peoples minds that they just won’t take the vaccine.

i’ve met a lot of smart individuals in my life. I have met some true Christians that just radiated grace. But as a species, and in large groups, we are not much smarter than a petri dish of bacteria.

[Crowman2009]

21. Good! Maybe a better qualified enlisted soldier can take their place.

Yeah, I'm biased toward giving commissions to the prior enlisted as you can tell.